Re: Deleting directories

2005-09-11 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Rem P Roberti wrote: How does one go about deleting directories and their contents? RMDIR will only delete empty directories. rm -rf directory works for me. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging

Re: XTerm fvwm2 Xorg

2005-08-13 Thread Chris Hill
the default window size larger, but I'd be looking for the word geometry in various config files. Also see man xterm. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: wizard mode docs

2005-08-11 Thread Chris Hill
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Re: Mount point's drwxrwxrwt permissions change when device is mounted (5.4-STABLE, amd64)

2005-07-20 Thread Chris Hill
and destroyed as the devices themselves come and go. Look into man devfs, also the files devfs.conf and devfs.rules. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Flash plugin

2005-06-13 Thread Chris Hill
for mozilla by installing two ports: www/linuxpluginwrapper www/linux-flashplugin Can't help you with opera or konqueror, but this should do it for mozilla; most likely firefox as well. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging

Re: Where's the grammar: hostname nor servname provided, or not known

2005-05-28 Thread Chris Hill
. Not to mention that it's a little bit more informative than Fafa's proposed Unknown location. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Tar chunks

2005-04-16 Thread Chris Hill
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Chris wrote: Can tar of some other compression util be set to archive a directory in chunks of say, 650 meg? If you have the space you could always tar first, then split(1). -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging

Re: sending mail between local computers

2005-04-06 Thread Chris Hill
machines, of course. I'm doing something like this with my internal mail at home, and it works fine. http://www.clanger9.org.uk/computer/explain.html Cute. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging

Re: Digital Cameras

2005-04-05 Thread Chris Hill
you describe. You don't need any special software, just standard stuff (cp, mv, rm). I have a Sony DSC-P10, and it also works fine using a friend's Sony DSC-(some other number). HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging

Re: New Freebsd Install Guide Available

2005-04-03 Thread Chris Hill
) Regardless, could the author be persuaded to contribute his/her wisdom to the official documentation, rather than verbally trash the latter? Persipiring minds want to know. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging

Re: more info

2005-03-21 Thread Chris Hill
to your daughter's machine? Check the D-Link's configuration using its web interface, and see what range of addresses it's set up to hand out. It would be a good idea to give your BSD box an address which is not in that range. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: just finished install

2005-03-19 Thread Chris Hill
? Its default IP is 192.168.0.1, IIRC. HTH... -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Wav from sound card line in

2005-03-15 Thread Chris Hill
to find anything in the software descriptions that address this need. audio/gramofile might work for you, though I haven't thoroughly tested it myself. See http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging

Re: sharing a DSL connection using FreeBSD-5.3

2005-03-13 Thread Chris Hill
, would Windows clients that runs on specific ports (i.e. YM and online games) still be able to work? If you block those ports, they won't work. If you need these things to work, and accept any security risks, open those ports on the firewall. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Adding a 2nd disk without messing with the 1st

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Hill
drive: zero. HTH... YMMV. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Problem with libgphoto2, Canon Ixus v2 (USB) and 5.3-STABLE

2005-03-06 Thread Chris Hill
msdos rw,noauto 0 0 ...and a symlink: lrwxr-xr-x 1 chris chris 21 Mar 6 16:59 camera - /camera/dcim/101msdcf (this is for a Sony camera, but you get the idea.) -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging

Re: how long does it takes you to do a make buildworld

2005-02-23 Thread Chris Hill
: MSI 915P Combo mobo, Intel [EMAIL PROTECTED], 1GB RAM (PC3200 DDR), 200G ATA133 disk. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-23 Thread Chris Hill
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RE: Electricity bill - OT

2005-02-08 Thread Chris Hill
gas water heater. As with any technical question, the true answer is it depends. I hear hot water is pretty reasonably priced in Iceland. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions

Re: cracked out floppy install

2005-02-07 Thread Chris Hill
is even surprisingly fast. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Please advise on triple-head _HIGH_ resolution solution for FreeBSD ...

2005-02-01 Thread Chris Hill
support that resolution. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: FreeBSD browsers...

2005-01-29 Thread Chris Hill
capability, maybe more. Hope this helps. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: moving users to new puter

2005-01-23 Thread Chris Hill
, if you're using it. Basically anything from /etc that you've customized that isn't machine-specific. Possibly some things from /usr/local/etc as well, depending on your application. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread Chris Hill
stuff. Hope this helps. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 RELENG source fails to build

2005-01-09 Thread Chris Hill
business, you're saying you want FreeBSD 2.2.5 as it was shipped on CD, i.e. patchlevel 0. No, it's highly unlikely you want this. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Good image editor

2005-01-08 Thread Chris Hill
resolution and color depth. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Create device

2004-12-26 Thread Chris Hill
know more than I do) would certainly ask two questions: a) what version of FreeBSD are you running (uname -a will tell you), and b) in what way does it not work? That is, exactly what do you type, and what is the system's response? -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Designed for FreeBSD stickers

2004-12-07 Thread Chris Hill
/ScotGold_Catalogue_BSD_Daemon_Stuff_3.html I think I got mine from Scot as well, but they don't seem to read Powered by FreeBSD anymore. What's on Scot's page now seems to be also available at http://www.case-badges.com/free_bsd_daemon_badges.html -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: rj-45 connector

2004-11-28 Thread Chris Hill
? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIA-568B -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-21 Thread Chris Hill
by Mozilla and friends, which IIRC was the OP's issue in the first place. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Problem Building World

2004-11-15 Thread Chris Hill
, but the whole thing went surprisingly smoothly. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: mount hides underlying files

2004-11-12 Thread Chris Hill
that documentation again. Is it in the handbook? Yes. There is a discussion of this at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disk-organization.html Also see the following page. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging

Re: cvsup 5.3 release gets incomplete release

2004-11-07 Thread Chris Hill
=5_3_RELEASE ^^^ Maybe this tag should be RELENG_5_3 if you want to track 5.3-RELEASE. HTH... -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: flash

2004-10-25 Thread Chris Hill
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Gert Cuykens wrote: how do i unistall /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-firefox ? Can i remove it with pkg_delete flashplugin-firefox ? make unistall does not work Try make deinstall. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging

Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

2004-10-06 Thread Chris Hill
for this sort of thing. It's pretty lightweight and can do what you need to do. It can also convert images to lower resolution, which you might want for posting on the web, as well as some amount of color correction type stuff. See /usr/ports/graphics. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-17 Thread Chris Hill
, if that matters. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: printing manpages

2004-04-08 Thread Chris Hill
printer. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: disconnect usb device

2004-03-22 Thread Chris Hill
, # umount /camera; 5) pull the plug. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: 4.4-RELEASE as a NAT/gateway

2004-03-16 Thread Chris Hill
/etc/natd.conf # Additional flags for natd. My /etc/natd.conf looks like this, in its entirety: use_sockets yes same_ports yes unregistered_only yes ...but it's on an ancient machine and things may have changed by now. man natd for more info. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Recycled cd's

2004-03-09 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Spencer Chirume wrote: Who do I get in touch with if to get a copy of a old BSD CD? Maybe someone on the list would be willing to burn you a copy of something they have lying around. What exactly are you looking for? -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Resolution problems in x and CLI

2003-12-07 Thread Chris Hill
file seems to indicate X is running at 640x480, and another seems to indicate 1024x768. Is there a way I can test this for sure? From an xterm, type xdpyinfo - it will tell you more than you wanted to know, including your screen resolution. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Divert port 80 to internal server

2003-11-02 Thread Chris Hill
ipfw rule that will work for this application? Thanks in advance. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: how do you get a script to run

2003-11-01 Thread Chris Hill
to put scripts. Alternatively, cd to the directory where the script is and do a ./myscript.sh HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: About domain name registrars

2003-06-21 Thread Chris Hill
godaddy.com, but I've been using gandi.net. They will host your DNS free. It's 12 euro per year, and you can do all your admin stuff on their web forms. Plus, they run FreeBSD - support your local, and all that. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging

Re: WebSSL

2003-02-02 Thread Chris Hill
-ssl.org/#Digital_Certificates -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: X mouse pointer aim intermittently becomes incorrect...

2003-01-07 Thread Chris Hill
to be [su'd to] root to do that) Sorry, I can't help with the underlying problem, though it sounds like you may have the wrong thing specified in your XF86Config. HTH... -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: copying audio cd's

2003-01-05 Thread Chris Hill
: burncd -f /dev/acd0c -s 40 audio track1 track2 track3 track4 fixate It seems like it should be possible to pipe the output of tosha into burncd, but I have not experimented with this yet; just bought the burner yesterday. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Aging Apple LaserWriter

2002-11-23 Thread Chris Hill
for plain text, just send the text file via lpr, and it prints. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: good colour laser printers?

2002-10-30 Thread Chris Hill
don't know what price you would consider excessive, but it seems that any color laser won't exactly be cheap. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

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